Rediscovering the telephone

Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you … More

What matters isn’t your writing software, it’s your file structures (sorry!)

Thanks to Anuja Cabraal who asked this question! It’s about 2,500 words of answer, so this is absolutely a Definitive … More

Successful non-verbal communication for video-conferencing

Now that we have transitioned to working from home, and worked out some of the technical issues about making things … More

Virtual Shut Up and Write: now with added Video

This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time … More

Three secrets in MSWord that will supercharge your productivity

So Inger, Shaun and I have just finished another book. This one is called Level Up your Essays for undergraduate writers, and … More

Planning your day, your week, your month… or even your year

(I hope you sang the title to the Friends’ theme tune.) It can be a challenge to juggle lots of … More

How do I make my online teaching resources accessible?

 Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students … More

Teaching students to send good emails

I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another … More

Yet another to-do list blog

Usually I keep my  to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember … More

But what if I don’t wanna?

One of the biggest challenges for PhD candidates, and any writer, is motivation. There is little external motivation beyond ‘getting … More